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... profit may be 2 or 10 per cent . Produce is paid for in cash , as it comes from the country . We subjoin the remarks of Mr. Read , appended to the above table of exports and prices , as follows : - The commercial business of Malaga , in ...
... profit may be 2 or 10 per cent . Produce is paid for in cash , as it comes from the country . We subjoin the remarks of Mr. Read , appended to the above table of exports and prices , as follows : - The commercial business of Malaga , in ...
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... profits are made . The merchants are wealthy , and the peo- ple , in general , most comfortably provided for , and with a moderate labor . 43 From the year 1749 to 1750 , 232 vessels 42 Commerce of the City of New York .
... profits are made . The merchants are wealthy , and the peo- ple , in general , most comfortably provided for , and with a moderate labor . 43 From the year 1749 to 1750 , 232 vessels 42 Commerce of the City of New York .
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... profit as to carry it to New Orleans . In the one case , nature has pro- vided him with a magnificent highway almost before his door , and art has provided ample steamers ready to carry it to New Orleans ; and yet , most perversely , he ...
... profit as to carry it to New Orleans . In the one case , nature has pro- vided him with a magnificent highway almost before his door , and art has provided ample steamers ready to carry it to New Orleans ; and yet , most perversely , he ...
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... profit . Although it has more recently come into direct competition with the railroads which have been constructed through the same region , it has , notwithstanding , maintained its own share of the business of transportation ...
... profit . Although it has more recently come into direct competition with the railroads which have been constructed through the same region , it has , notwithstanding , maintained its own share of the business of transportation ...
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... profits of business are small , and the number of enter- prises demanding extraordinary capital fewer than formerly . Hence , it would naturally follow that money would seek stocks for investment to a greater extent than in those years ...
... profits of business are small , and the number of enter- prises demanding extraordinary capital fewer than formerly . Hence , it would naturally follow that money would seek stocks for investment to a greater extent than in those years ...
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Página 404 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Página 514 - ... for transacting the business of said company: and at the expiration of the term of insurance, the said note, or such...
Página 404 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay, and Davis's Straits ; — whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.
Página 526 - April, 1790,(i) provides that "If any person or persons shall commit upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state, murder or robbery, or any other offence which if committed within the body of a county, would by the laws of the United States be punishable with death...
Página 306 - He is said to have weighed unto him " four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant, (Gen.
Página 22 - It is a part of our history, that, at the adoption of the constitution, all the states were greatly indebted; and the apprehension that these debts might be prosecuted in the federal courts, formed a very serious objection to that instrument. Suits were instituted; and the court maintained its jurisdiction. The alarm was general; and, to quiet the apprehensions that wvre so extensively entertained, this amendment was proposed in Congress, and adopted by the state legislatures.
Página 404 - Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that while some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude and pursue the gigantic game along the coast of Brazil.
Página 52 - Therefore, resolved, if the honorable the senate concur herein, that a joint committee be appointed to take into consideration the propriety of exploring and causing an accurate survey to be made of the most eligible and direct route for a canal, to open a communication between the tide waters of the Hudson river and Lake Erie, to the end that Congress may be enabled to appropriate such sums as may be necessary to the accomplishment of that great national object.
Página 404 - ... for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry.
Página 25 - A state, like a merchant, makes a contract ; a dishonest state, like a dishonest merchant, wilfully refuses to discharge it The latter is amenable to a court of justice upon general principles of right. Shall the former, when summoned to answer the fair demands of its creditor, be permitted, Proteus-like, to assume a new appearance, and to insult him and justice, py declaring, " I am a sovereign state !